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autumn off Yentry Harbour, being another among the many interesting 

 additions that have been made on that part of the coast of fish peculiar 

 to the Mediterranean. The specimen exhibited is of full size, being in 

 length six inches, thicker in proportion than the herring, no serrations 

 on the abdomen, and the sides and belly being of the most silvery 

 brightness, and having no apparent scales. The back was a dark bluish 

 green ; the mouth with a remarkably wide gape ; teeth exceedingly 

 minute in the maxillary ; none in the lower jaw ; snout much project- 

 ing. At first examination I thought it might be a species of Melette, 

 as it did not bear sufficient resemblance to several of the figures of the 

 anchovy in works on ichthyology. The best and most perfect outline 

 of the specimen is that figured by Duhamel — " Traite des Peches," 

 vol. ii., sec. 3, pi. 17, fig. 5. Duhamel has given most elaborate details 

 of the characters and modes of fishing for the anchovy. The anchovy 

 is chiefly taken in the Mediterranean, principally off the coast of Sicily, 

 the Isles of Elba, Corsica, Antibes, Frejus, Saint Tropez, and Cannes. 

 They are chiefly prepared on the Provencal coast. It has been met in 

 several localities on the coast of England, and Mr. Couch considers that 

 it may be abundantly taken on the Cornwall coast. Gunther mentions 

 specimens in the British Museum, obtained from Yan Diemen's Land 

 and New Zealand, and states a difference between European specimens 

 and those from the southern hemisphere is the slightly increased num- 

 ber of the anal rays, eighteen to twenty. This, however, is the first 

 record of its capture on the shores of Ireland, and it is not unlikely but 

 that in the autumn season the anchovy, with nets of a proper mesh, 

 may be taken in Dingle Bay and other bays on the south-west coast. 



Dr. Arthur Wynne Foot read the following paper : — 



On the Breeding of some Birds from the Southern Hemisphere in 

 the Dublin Zoological Gardens. 



A pair of Cereopsis gaese were purchased by the council of the Royal 

 Zoological Society, 7th September, 1866. On the 1 7th November, 1868, 

 a nest, made by the goose, was found with three eggs in it, on the 

 evening of the same day a fourth egg was laid in it, and a fifth on the 

 19th. The goose sat on the nest from the time it was discovered till 

 the 19th, when the superintendent put a crate over it for the purpose 

 of sheltering it ; this caused the goose to forsake it. The gander re- 

 mained near the nest as long as the goose was sitting, and showed fight 

 when any one approached it ; the circumstance of his running at the 

 superintendent when he went near the shrubbery in which the nest 

 was, first led Mr. Carter to suspect the goose was hatching in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and to make a search for her. The nest was made of sticks 

 and twigs arranged in a circular form on freshly dug ground at the foot 

 of a lilac bush, the mass of twigs measured two feet in diameter and was 

 raised about six inches from the ground, the central part of the plat- 

 form was lined with the grey down and small feathers of the goose. 

 The nest was in an elevated part of the gardens quite away from the 



